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We’ve warned you about this before: Hot dogs are dangerous! But just in time for Memorial Day cookouts, we have good news for you: They’re not as dangerous as they used to be.

The addition of ascorbate (vitamin C) or its close relative, erythorbate, and the reduced amount of nitrite added in hot dogs, mandated in 1978, have been accompanied by a steep drop in the death rate from colon cancer–more people having colonoscopies may be the cause of this. However, the incidence rate for colon cancer has apparently not changed much since 1978–is eating hot dogs partly to blame?
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There have been a large number of UFO sightings reported in New Zealand over the past two months. One man even reported seeing a UFO land.

The New Zealand Herald quotes UFO researcher Suzanne Hansen as saying, "He’s a very credible source. He saw an object that had landed and said it was definitely not an aircraft or like anything else he had seen.

"I’ve got 30 (UFO) reports on my desk at the moment from the upper North Island and Northland from the past couple of weeks that we’re yet to process. It’s unprecedented."
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There is a coupon in the Unknowncountry.com subscriber section offering $10.00 off the physical edition of Whitley Strieber’s beautiful Tarot book, the Path. This takes the price down to just 95 cents.

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The order in which colors are named worldwide appears to be due to how eyes work. Researchers have found that colors familiar to one culture might not even have names in another, suggesting that different cultures indeed have different ways of seeing–and understanding–the world.

Color names always seem to appear in a specific order of importance across cultures: black, white, red, green, yellow and blue. In LiveScience, Charles Choi quotes physicist Francesca Tria as saying, "If a population has a name for red, it also has a name for black and for white–or, if it has a name for green, it also has a name for red." But if a population has a name for black and white, that doesn’t necessarily mean they have a name for red.
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